Lid-fastener for milk-cans.



C. 0. RIEPSNYDER. LID FASTENBR FOR MILK CANS. APPLICATION FILED 211.13, 1914.

1,1 18,879, Patented NOV. 24, 1914.

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OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN MOCRAY, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

LID-FASTENER FOR MILK-CANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Application filed February 13, 1914. Serial No. 818,556.

removal or displacement of lids of milk cans and the like.

A further object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap and durable fastener for lids of milk-cans which can readily be removed manually when desired.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation illustrating my improved device in position for practical use. Fig. 2 is a plan of the fastener detached. Fig. 3 is a plan and Fig. 4 a side elevation of a slightly modified form.

In the construction of the device as shown the numerals 10, 11 designate coacting members formed of rather heavy wire and preferably finished in some suitable manner to prevent rusting. The member 10 is bent intermediate of its ends to form an upstanding eye 12, and the member 11 is formed with a horizontal eye 13 at its inner end engaging said eye 12, whereby said members 10, 11 are pivotally secured together. The member 10 is bent laterally at its inner end, beyond the eye 12, and then up and laterally in the opposite direction to form a hook 14 adapted to engage an intermediate portion of the member 11. The outer ends of the members 10, 11 are doubled back on themselves, thus forming widened end portions or hooks 15, 16, and are bent laterally at their ends to form stop lugs 17, 18. The widened end portions or hooks 15, 16 are offset downwardly intermediate of their ends.

In practical use the device is employed as shown in Fig. 1 to secure a lid such as 19 to a container such as a milk-can 20. The neck of the can 20 is formed with diametrically opposed holes 21,22, and the lid 19 is formed member 11 is detached from the hook 14.

and iscarried to the rear thereof and downwardly, the eye 13 articulating on the eye 12. The ends or hooks 15, 16 are carried downwardly and are caused to enter and pass through the holes 21-23 and 22-24 respectively, after which the inner ends of the members 10, 11 are moved downwardly to approximately the level of said end portions. around and caused to engage the central portion of the member 11. This holds the device in extended position and prevents accidental removal of the lid 19 from the container 20, which cannot be accomplished without detaching the hook 14. The free end of the hook 14 preferably projects beyond the line of the member 10 so as to prevent accidental detachment thereof from the member 11.

In the construction according to Figs. 1 and 2 the eye 13 of the member 11 is attached to the outer side of the eye 12 of the 1 it is necessary to spring the member 11 slightly to seat it in the hook 14, or to unseat it therefrom. This tends to prevent accidental detachment of the hook 14 from the member 11 and insures secure fastening of the device in extended position.

In the construction according to Figs. 3 and 4 the eye 13 is secured to the inner side of the eye 12, and the member 11 articulates on the forward side of the hook 14. In this construction no effort or springing is required to seat the member 11 in the hook 14, and consequently the fastening is more easily accomplished but is not so stable as in.

the other form.

The device may be mounted through the handle 25 of the lid 19 as shown in Fig. 1, or may be mounted above such handle, dependent upon the construction of the lid and the relation of the holes 21, 22, 23, 24 to such handle and to the top of the lid and can.

The offset portion of the ends or hooks 15, 16 are designed to lie within the holes The hook 14 is carried beneath and 21-423 and 22-24:, and the stop lugs 17, 18 limit movement of the members through said holes.

I claim as my invention 1. A device of the class described, comprising coacting members pivoted together, one of said members being extended beyond the pivotal point, and a hook on the extended end of said latter member and adapted to engage the other member, said hook being disposed laterally and having its free end extended beyond the line of its member.

2. A device of the class described, comprising coacting members formed of Wire and provided With interengagingeyes, one of said members being extended integrally beyond its eye and formed With a hook adapted to engage the other member, said members being offset downwardly adjacent their outer ends.

3. A device of the class described, comprising coacting members formed of Wire and provided With interengaging eyes, one of said members being extended integrally beyond its eye and formed on its extremity With a hook adapted to engage the other member, said members being oflset doWn- Wardly adjacent their outer ends and also being formed With laterally extending stop lugs adjacent said offsets.

l. A device of the class described, comprising coactingmembersformed of Wire, one of said members being formed with an upstanding eye intermediate of its ends, the other member being formed with an eye at its inner end engaging the outer side of the first eye, and a hook on the inner end of the first member adapted to engage the other member.

A device of the class described, comprising coacting members formed of Wire, one of said members being formed with an upstanding eye intermediate of its ends, the

other member being formed With an eye at its inner end engaging the outer side of the first eye, and a hook on the inner end of the first member adapted to engage the other member, said hook being disposed laterally and having its free end extended be yond the line of its member.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this ninth day of February, 191%.

CHARLES OJ RIEFSNYDER. Witnesses:

EARL M. SINCLAIR, A. L. (1001:.

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Washington, D. C. 

